How to Install and Uninstall universal-ctags Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: May 12,2024

You can also install and uninstall the universal-ctags on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "universal-ctags" package

This tutorial shows how to install universal-ctags on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                universal-ctags
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "universal-ctags" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall universal-ctags on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the universal-ctags package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: universal-ctags
Version: 5.9.20210829.0-1
Installed-Size: 3386
Maintainer: Alessandro Ghedini
Architecture: amd64
Provides: ctags
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.28), libjansson4 (>= 2.0.1), libseccomp2 (>= 0.0.0~20120605), libxml2 (>= 2.7.4), libyaml-0-2
Suggests: vim | nvi | vile | emacsen
Description: build tag file indexes of source code definitions
Description-md5: d7d8368b5930ac9ff9104de57ea85615
Homepage: https://ctags.io/
Section: editors
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/u/universal-ctags/universal-ctags_5.9.20210829.0-1_amd64.deb
Size: 739216
MD5sum: c3a82992c25bff4864b3531cefaa4609
SHA256: 90956be9319620f35093cbcc61c9eaf9db042553ccc3f400e5573363b72fd033